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Contact: Morrie Goldman (Definitive Marketing) 312-943-1329
James Wiczer, PhD (Sensor Synergy, Inc.) 847-353-8200
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SENSOR-TO-NETWORK SMART INTERFACE PUTS
LIVE DATA ON WEB WITHOUT PROGRAMMING
Sensor Synergy, Inc has announced the first of a new family of stand-alone, Network Enabled Equipment Monitor products. Designed to greatly simplify remote-sensor communications, for applications such as equipment monitoring, the NEEM Model 112 generates live Web views of data from common analog sensors. Until now, the connection of sensors to the Internet was a costly, engineering-intensive process. This unit combines the key hardware features of a data acquisition system, a data logger and a network server with a tightly integrated, browser-based data viewer interface.
The NEEM is powered by advanced smart sensing technologies and includes a software development kit that is rich with modifiable examples, such as an open-source data logger. Through the use of patent-pending "smart-interface" technology, the NEEM 112 provides electronic data sheets and web-log information to supplement the remote user's interpretation of the raw sensor data. This unit is self-contained, with no subscription fees, programming or dedicated data acquisition computer required.
Real-time data from multiple sensors can be accessed securely by a standard web browser from anywhere in the world. One NEEM can support ten external sensors. Signal formats include +/-10 volts, thermocouples, strain gauges, 4-20mA, and 5-volt pulses from event counters. Threshold levels can be set to automatically send an urgent alarm email or provide an on-screen alert. An included software toolkit can customize data acquisition and integrate digital values of sensor data into standard software applications, such as spreadsheets, presentation software or custom programs. For example, real-time sensor data can be captured and displayed in a continuously updating Excel spreadsheet on a remote internet-connected PC.
Installation is straightforward. Attach virtually any analog sensor to the Sensor Synergy unit, connect to a nearby Ethernet connection, and plug in the power cable. An easy-to-use configuration program and an internal micro-web server launch sensor data onto the Web within minutes of first setup. The sensor data is stored inside the NEEM unit for a year.
Remote monitoring applications include equipment operation, production processes, R&D experiments, environmental, security, preventative maintenance, diagnostics, quality control and virtually any sensor-dependent system. Customized board-level products are available for volume applications and can be a cost-effective way to web-enable existing equipment and systems.
The Sensor Synergy Model 112 Sensor-to-Network Interface is available for immediate delivery. Prices for individual units start at $795. Quantity pricing and OEM versions are available.
For more information, contact Sensor Synergy, Inc., 1110 W. Lake Cook Road, Buffalo Grove, IL 60089.
Phone: (847) 353-8200; Fax 847-353-8232.
Web: www.sensorsynergy.com
Email: sales@sensorsynergy.com
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KEY BACKGROUND POINTS:
- Sensor technology is a very hot topic and of interest to a broad audience. Remote monitoring of sensor data is also hot.
- The Sensor Synergy NEEM Model 112 simplifies the connection of sensors to networks as never before…no special sensors required…no programming.
- Entirely self-contained, no monthly subscription fees and no external computer required.
- Super-fast installation--see data from your sensors on the web in less than 30 minutes.
- Works with virtually any analog sensor, including humidity, temperature (including Type K Thermocouple), pressure, strain, level, flow, or switch closure.
- Much-lower-in-cost than alternative methods of remote data monitoring and significantly less learning/engineering efforts required to make data on the web happen.
- Allows web enabling of existing equipment and systems without retrofit.
- Customized, board-level OEM products available.
- Up to ten sensors can be monitored simultaneously.
- Not just a monitor--offers powerful data acquisition and data logging capabilities.
- Uses IEEE 1451.2 transducer interface standard. Transforms ordinary off-the-shelf sensors into smart sensors, complete with electronic data sheets.
- Technology proven in projects developed for US Government.
- No monitoring service contracts. No separate software costs. Ready to use out of the box.
- The NEEM solution allows the
user to own and control all resources necessary to put
data on a corporate LAN or the Internet.
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Company Information
Sensor Synergy, Inc. is a U.S. corporation founded in October 1999 to help industry simplify the task of connecting sensors and actuators to the Internet and local networks.
Many manufacturing and commercial enterprises have identified operational barriers within their organization due to various incompatible machine-to-machine and human-to-machine interfaces. Many of these incompatibilities have their roots in low-level electrical and software interfaces used to connect sensor devices to up-stream intelligence. In order to facilitate the use of sensor information collected by various industrial and commercial processes, Sensor Synergy has developed unique set of software and hardware tools to implement low-cost sensor-to-Internet interfaces requiring minimal effort, no training, and virtually no background technical knowledge. These products can be used for remote monitoring of industrial processes, environmental conditions or a wide-range of other, sensor-based monitoring tasks, through standard internet-connected Web browsers.
The company's smart transducer interfaces can be custom configured to customer requirements and thus simplify the task of connecting sensor and actuator devices to Ethernet networks. By utilizing existing sensor and actuator devices, Sensor Synergy interfaces work "out-of-the-box," without the need for user programming or separate custom software.
The Sensor Synergy staff has the experience and comprehensive understanding necessary to provide user-friendly solutions to complex network-to-device interface issues. Company expertise in sensor hardware technology and custom software solutions has led to the development of cost-saving answers to long-standing industry problems.
Drawing on his twenty years of research and development in the sensors and automation area, founder and CEO of Sensor Synergy, Dr. James Wiczer began the process to create better tools to connect transducers to automation equipment. Later, the Sensor Synergy team brought together the combined expertise of several of Dr. Wiczer's former colleagues from the National Laboratories, as well as leading experts from California, Massachusetts, and Illinois.
Dr. James Wiczer holds five U.S. patents related to sensors and has published over 60 articles on his research and development work. After receiving his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, he worked at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His experiences at Sandia include management of the Robotics and Automation Department and, subsequently, management of the Microsensors R&D Department.
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Summary for James Wiczer, President of Sensor Synergy, Inc.
James Wiczer, PhD is president and founder of Sensor Synergy, Inc in Buffalo Grove, IL. Sensor Synergy develops custom and semi-custom software and hardware interfaces for sensors and actuators used in industrial monitoring, automation, and control applications. As Sensor Synergy's chief product architect, Wiczer has had the opportunity to implement some of the latest concepts in smart sensor interfaces as part of Sensor Synergy's interface solutions technology.
Dr. Wiczer works with various national and international groups to help advance smart sensor standards. Currently, Wiczer is chair of the IEEE-1451.2 Standards Committee tasked with updating the "IEEE Standard for a Smart Transducer Interface for Sensors and Actuators". Wiczer also serves as chair of various technical conference sessions involving Smart Sensor technologies.
Prior to founding Sensor Synergy, Wiczer served for 5 years as technology vice president at Wico Information Technologies developing custom software solutions for business needs. In this role, Wiczer managed over $3 million in programming projects to develop innovative software technology for custom business applications.
Before his software development role, Wiczer was the manager of the Microsensors R&D Dept. and before that he was manager of the Robotics and Automation Dept. - both at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
James received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Wiczer followed his PhD work with an 18-year tenure at Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, NM. Wiczer's activities at Sandia included: sensor program development; research and development of sensors for various applications using ultrasonic, optical and capacitance phenomena; research and development of sensor devices for industrial process control; and the design and development of specialized optical detectors for adverse environments.
Wiczer has published over 60 articles on his research and development work and has been awarded five patents with others pending. He is a senior member of the IEEE, Tau Beta Pi, HKN and other professional organizations. For the past 5 years, Wiczer has served as state judging chair for electronics related projects at the annual Illinois state science fair.
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